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Tusk shell (Dentalium capillosum)

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Accession number

NHMUK-1887.2.9.4-6

Holding institution

Natural History Museum, London

Date collected

30 June 1873

Area or Water body

West of the Azores, Portugal
Northeast Atlantic Ocean

Form

FAO

27

Field measurements and observations

Bottom Temperature (°F): 39.4
Sediment sample: Pteropod ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.02883
Surface Temperature (°F): 69
Temperature at x fathoms: 59.8;57;54;49;45.5;43.4;42;41;40;39.4

Type status

Syntype

Taxonomic groups

Dentalium capillosum
Dentalium
Dentaliida
Scaphopoda
Mollusca
Animalia

Station

73

Gear

Dredge

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